Mardāvīj b. Ziyār - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Jarrar, Maher
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Mardāvīj b. Ziyār (lit., he who hangs people, Ibn al-Wardī, 1:267; Justi, 194; Minorsky, 14; d. 323/935-6, r. 319-23/931-5) and his older brother Vushmgīr (lit., purchaser of quails, Minorsky, 14; called Washmgīr in Justi, 359; r. 323-56/935-67) were founders of the Ziyārid dynasty (Bosworth, New Islamic dynasties , 166-7), which ruled Ṭabaristān and Jurjān from 319/931 to about 483/10190. He belonged to a noble tribe (al-Ṣābī, 14; al-Bīrūnī, 39; Kaykāvus, 2-3; al-Bayhaqī, 359) from